The research is Critical Discourse Analysis. The main aims of this research are: to describe the utterances intention that is used in Ashin Wirathu’s speeches about Muslim in Rohingya and to describe power and ideology that are represented in Ashin Wirathu’s speeches. The data are taken from Ashin Wirathu’s speeches entitled “Ashin Wirathu is saying bad things about muslims” and “Burmese! Buddhist monk,His name is Wirathu, he calls himself the Burmese Bin Laden.”
The type of this research is descriptive qualitative research. The techniques of data collection of this research are documentation and observation, and the steps are: Searching for the video on Youtube, searching the script of the video and then downloading the video and the transcript. The underlying theory used in this research, they are Speech Act Theory proposed by John R. Searle and Critical Discourse Analysis Theory proposed by Thomas Huckin.
The result shows that there are six kinds of intentions found in this research. They are informing, describing, stating, claiming, questioning and promising. The type of Wirathu’s first speech is argumentative. By using those kinds of speech Wirathu tried to explain his argument and idea towards Muslim and he tried to influence the listeners to hate Muslim. It can be analyzed from the genre analysis element. The type of his second speech is persuasive. By using those kinds of speech Wirathu tried to persuade his followers to follow his idea. It can be analyzed from the genre analysis element. Wirathu can influence his followers to hate Muslim easily because he has power as a Monk
